DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Hessen	Hesse
Regierungsbezirk: Darmstadt
Kreis: Main-Taunus-Kreis

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The spa town Bad Soden am Taunus is situated at an elevation of 141 m on the southern slopes of the Taunus mountains 15 km northwest of Frankfurt am Main, 20 km eastnortheast of Wiesbaden and 9 northeast of the district town Hofheim am Taunus.

Soden was first mentioned in a document of 1190. Until 1803 Soden had the status of a free Imperial Village so that it was independent of any sovereign except the emperor himself. The mineral springs were first mentioned in 1437, and in 1605 the first saline was set up for the production of salt. The first spa activities began in 1701, the first spa hotel (Kurhaus) was built in 1722. In 1806 Soden became of the Duchy of Nassau. The railway from Soden to Höchst near (today in) Frankfurt was opened in 1847 and soon Soden became an internationally renowned spa. In 1922 the predicate 'Bad' ('spa') was added to the name Soden and in 1947 Bad Soden obtained the status of a town. From the 1960's onwards Bad Soden also became a popular residential place of the Frankfurt metropolitan area. In 1977 the neighbouring communities of Altenhain and Neuenhain were incorporated into the municipality of Bad Soden.

The Kurhaus [left, no. 3907, and right, no. 1882] was built in 1849 in 'Swiss' style. The building depicted on the two glasses was torn down in 1926 and was replaced by a new building which opened in 1927. The second Kurhaus was torn down at the beginning of the 1970s. In its place, the third Kurhaus in modern style was build in 1980–1982. The Kurhaus closed in 2001 and since then is used as a hotel.

Other places with similar names that are depicted on glasses in this collection are: Bad Soden-Salmünster and Bad Sooden-Allendorf.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Soden_am_Taunus; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurhaus_(Bad_Soden)]